When Barry and Wyatt Dusome first took on the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) without legal representation, they beat long odds. We wrote about that rare victory in the area of patent eligibility. In 2025, the Federal Court found that the Commissioner of Patents had erred by failing to apply proper purposive construction to their...Read More
Imagine you are in court alone without a lawyer, making complex arguments on behalf of yourself and your co-inventor, as to why the patent office made a mistake in rejecting your patent application. Specifically that your invention is patent eligible. Everyone opposing you is a paid professional. It is not hard to see that the...Read More
The Canadian Commissioner of Patents published a decision rejecting a patent application by an artificial intelligence system and naming the AI as an inventor. In keeping with established practice, the commissioner accepted the advice of members of the Patent Appeal Board that an artificial intelligence system cannot be named as an “inventor”. The applicant, Stephen...Read More
